“COVID-19 Update in Malaga: 388 New Infections and 10 Deaths”

Malaga province It has dropped this week from the 400 cases of coronavirus and registers 388 new infections, almost a hundred less than seven days ago when 482 were recorded. Likewise, in this period Ten people have died with or from the disease.

Regarding the number of hospitalizations due to coronavirus, 17,558 people have already passed through hospitals from Malaga, 32 of them this week, of which 1,251 have had to be treated in the Intensive Care Units (ICU).

About 400 infections these days

According to the information provided in accordance with the new surveillance strategy approved by the National Public Health Commission, the number of positives detected in these days have been 388with which since the beginning of the pandemic there are 322,606 infections.

In addition, ten people have died with or from the virus these days, rising to 2,921 since the start of the pandemic. For its part, the number of recovered continues to increase with 346 more recorded, the total of 322.011 personas who have overcome the disease.

As for the vaccination processthe latest data available as of May 2 indicate that a total of 3,818,360 doses in the province of Malaga. Thus, 1,451,496 people have received at least one dose and 1,420,854 people have the full prime vaccination schedule.

This Tuesday, the Ministry of Health and Consumption has wanted to make a reminder of the mandatory use of the mask in health and social health centers, as well as the benefits of this for people with allergies.

Does three years, the people of Malaga – like the rest of the Spaniards – were confined. Looking back, emotions range from relief to horror. astonishment for the past, relief for the present. Three years later, many hospitalized patients for covid are fully recovered and now they remember their admission as a bad dream. But others continue to fight tooth and nail against the aftermath that the virus left them. Is he disparate balance of survivors.

Obviously, the worst part was taken by the 2,883 deaths in the pandemic with this infection.

The disparate balance of Covid survivors

Antonio Leal He was one of the first infected. He contracted the virus in mid-March 2020. He passed 343 days entered in between the Clinical and the Maritime74 of them in Intensive Care. Perhaps he is the patient in the province who remained hospitalized the longest. She walked into the Clinic and almost a year later came out in a wheelchair. Although she has recovered quite a bit, she has not been able to walk again.

He barely takes a few steps, and with help, to go to the bathroom. Besides, can’t move right arm. “I’m getting used to eating with my left hand by force… I feel pretty good, as far as it goes… In the hospital I was very bad. I saw the ears of the wolf, but here I am, giving war ”, he jokes. At 70 years old, she retains the good humor to cope with this adversity.

He and his wife embodies urbanThey were happy enjoying themselves in a hotel in Huelva when the pandemic broke out. A few days later, he was hospitalized. “I am by his side every day, 24 hours a day, because he has no stability,” says Encarna. She regrets that public health no longer continues to give her rehabilitation sessions, as at the beginning of his convalescence. “Because we are pensioners and we cannot afford a physiotherapist, that should be covered by insurance. They tell us that he no longer belongs to her, but he doesn’t walk, ”she denounces. So his daughter and son-in-law, when they finish working, they stop by his house and hold him so he can walk; to see if he could go back to being who he was. Before Covid, it was valid. Now he is a great dependent. Cristina, his daughter, recalls: “Add that we couldn’t visit him in the hospital, that his severity was extreme and that we were confined at home, it was a very hard time.” Although he can’t go to the bathroom by himself and only has one arm, Antonio is more animated. “Luckily I have my family,” he reflects.